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
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival returns
The event no crisp lover will want to miss is back in 2025 In 2024, the greatest homage to crisp consumption was created with the inaugural Huddersfield International Crisp Festival staged at The Sportsman Beerhouse. It’s fair to say it went viral; TV, radio,...
Seasoned Greetings! Feast on a Crispmas dinner at The Sportsman
The Sportsman is now serving Crispmas dinner; a festive menu consisting entirely of crisps!
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’!
The Huddersfield International Crisp Festival 2025 is fast approaching!
Here's an old advert to whet your appetite
The Huddersfield International Crisp Festival runs from the 10th to the 19th October at The Sportsman Beerhouse, Huddersfield.
Featuring:
- Over 100 varieties of crisp
- Crisp and Beer Pairing Evenings
- Crisp and Wine Pairing Evenings
- Crisp Themed Quiz
- Bottomless Crunch
- The Most Dangerous Crisp in The World
- Plus more events to be announced
New for 2025: The Huddersfield International Crisp Festival Fringe - The Wacky Snack Shack at The County Beerhouse Huddersfield.
Tickets for tastings available from the link below
www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-huddersfield-international-crisp-festival-2025-3715869
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Hello everyone 👋 Our social media has gone a bit wild recently with bridge enthusiasts, so we have a LOT of new followers and lots of new eyes on what it is that we do. What a great opportunity to promote some good for the community!
Last week I had the honour of meeting Steve, the guy who runs Men Walking and Talking - Huddersfield. He was looking for a place to host the groups monthly social event and reached out to book a room at The Sportsman for it. We'd seen a bit of the work that he does already but we were keen to learn more so I actually decided to get involved and walk with the group yesterday to see what they did first hand! Needless to say, it's an incredibly positive group for Huddersfield, especially now with the recent news of the Platform 1 charity closing down due to lack of funding.
If you're struggling at all, been through struggles and want to help people get through theirs, or just fancy a good walk and a chat then this group meets every Monday, 6:30PM at the Harold Wilson Statue in St George's Square. If you don't fancy the walk but do want to talk then they're meeting at The Sportsman in the side room at 7:40PM on October 6th, we have a wide range of alcohol free options available, and jugs of juice will be free to the group on the night.
Finally, please show the group a bit of support by following their page and spreading the word about them. See you soon 🍻
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