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!).
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 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.
The Sportsman Beerhouse
News & Events
The Sportsman Team
We’ve got a fantastic team here at The Sportsman, but these are the people you’ll see most often:
John Fletcher
Manager
Ryan Robinson
Assistant Manager
The Latest from The Sportsman
It’s our birthday and we’ll rebrand if we want to!
To celebrate 10 years as a business, we’ve undergone a bit of a visual transformation! We have a new brand and a new website, but we’re still the same Beerhouses and we still believe in ‘proper pubs’!
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival – the best festival ever?
The inaugural Huddersfield International Crisp Festival has gone viral!
Vocation Tap Takeover comes to The County and The Sportsman in June
We have an amazing Vocation Tap Takeover coming to The County and The Sportsman on 21st June – including some very special barrel aged stouts.
🚨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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Might just be the best vocation and friends beer yet. Nectar of the gods!
Here are our Christmas opening times!
The rest of December will remain as normal:
Sunday - Thursday: Noon - 11pm
Friday - Saturday: Noon - Midnight
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Delirium is a better gift than an airfryer. Make the right choice this Christmas. Available at The Sportsman now... Delirium gift sets that is. We don't sell airfryers 🍻
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