The Sportsman - Beerhouses

The Sportsman Bar, Beerhouses, Huddersfield

The Sportsman combines heritage (built in 1930 as an ‘improved pub’) and modernity (at the forefront of the real cider movement and the creator of the Huddersfield International Crisp Festival!).

Beerhouses took over The Sportsman in 2009 and we set about restoring its Art Deco beauty, winning an English Heritage Pub Design Award in 2010 and being granted Grade II Listed status shortly after. It retains many original features and is renowned for its distinctive curved wooden bar. The gents’ toilets are a joy to behold – probably not a statement you can make about many men’s loos in a pub 😬 – with original urinals and tiles depicting 5 popular sports of the day. We also have a beautiful beer garden, which we have dubbed The Hanging Gardens of Huddersfield, so we strongly recommend that you make the most of every droplet of sunshine that Huddersfield gets by coming and sitting in it!

We’ve graced the pages of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide since 2012 and are proud winners of Huddersfield CAMRA’s Cider Pub of the Year for several years running. Of course, as you would expect from a Beerhouses pub, we also offer an excellent range of cask ales as well as a weekly Dram Club, celebrating featured whiskies.

We’re known for our tasting events and manager, John Fletcher, is also known as an Honourable Knight of The Brotherhood of the Pink Elephant, as designated by Huyghe Brewery due to his exceptional conditioning of Delirium beers on the bar. It’s what he insists his friends call him.

Food at The Sportsman

We offer a range of bar snacks, including hot pork scratchings and a wide variety of crisps and nuts. You can also order food from Big Joe’s next door via the hatch in the beer garden to eat in the pub.

Events

We offer a varied programme of events, including tasting nights, Meet the Brewer, and are the original innovators of the Huddersfield International Crisp Festival. See our socials for details of upcoming events.

Our regular events include:

Monday: Poker Night from 7pm

Tuesday: Tuesday Treats – offers on selected drinks

Thursday: Dram Club

Sunday: Quiz Night from 7pm

Function Room

We have two rooms that are available for hire. One seating 24 and the other, 18 people. They are free to hire for parties, meetings, or groupings of any kind.

Opening Times

Monday: 12:00 – 23:00

Tuesday: 12:00 – 23:00

Wednesday: 10:00 – 23:00

Thursday: 12:00 – 23:00

Friday: 12:00 – 00:00

Saturday: 12:00 – 00:00

Sunday: 12:00 – 23:00

OUR CHOSEN CHARITIES

Our nominated charity is Project Youth Cancer, whose mission it is to change the way that young people experience cancer. In 2024, we set ourselves a huge target to raise at least £6000 for the charity and a huge target requires a huge challenge. Working with Huddersfield brewers, Magic Rock Brewing, we created the Yorkshire 3 Pints Challenge, which involved carrying 3 barrels up and down the Yorkshire 3 Peaks. This event, and several other fundraising activities resulted in us raising £6600. You can see more information here.

Behind the bar at The Sportsman, Huddersfield

Friends Playing Board Games at The Sportsman, Huddersfield

Beer garden at The Sportsman, Huddersfield

The Sportsman Beerhouse

1 St Johns Rd, Huddersﬁeld HD1 5AY

Telephone: 01484 421929

Email: sportsman@beerhouses.co.uk

News & Events

The Sportsman Beerhouse

17 hours ago

🚨New beer alert!🚨

Vocation and friends with Floc. - Amber Ale is fresh on the bar

Vocation Brewery's "and friends" series has proven to be incredibly popular with top notch beer after top notch beer being produced from it, collaborating with some of the biggest names in brewing. Floc. Brewing are a relatively new brewery having started in 2020 down in Margate, however they have made some SERIOUS waves in that time, firmly establishing themselves as one of the very best breweries in the UK at the moment.

Here they've brought us a 5.0% Amber Ale with absolutely bags of toffee and caramel notes. It's malty, it's everything you want from an Amber Ale... it's like receiving a warm hug from an old friend on a cold day 🍻 An absolute must try! See you soon ❤

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