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
An update on the Stamp Me app
A Stamp Me update
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Ryan's had a busy week! On Tuesday he was scoring bicycle kicks for Scotland, on Thursday he was brewing imperial stouts with Emperor's Brewery and Doorstep Brewing, on Friday he was doing an imperial stout tasting, on Saturday he was slightly unproductive for some strange reason BUT he's still found time to write the quiz!
Join us from 7PM for the best pub quiz in town, free to play, lots of prizes to be won, lots of great beer to be drank... see you soon 🍻
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We had a successful event with Emperor's Brewery on Friday.
Don't worry if you missed it, we still have the full range of cans and Keg beers available.
When they are gone they are gone so snap them up quick!
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Last night we had the absolute honour of welcoming one of the finest brewers in the galaxy for a very special Meet The Brewer Event! You lot gave Damian from Emperor's Brewery a very warm Huddersfield welcome and made the event even more special than it already was so a massive thank you to everyone you came and sent me heart-warming messages this morning such as "my head hurts" 😅
And if this has put you in the mood for more events then you're in luck! Delirium Day weekend is only a week away! We'll have 2 very special Delirium Brewery tastings from Honourable Knight of the Brotherhood of the Pink Elephant John Fletcher, Delirium's full range of beers, aged Delirium Noel and loads of other stuff. It truly is the pink elephant party of the year! Get your tickets for the tasting events below and see you soon 🐘
www.eventbrite.com/cc/delirium-day-2025-4758633
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