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
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’!
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival – the best festival ever?
The inaugural Huddersfield International Crisp Festival has gone viral!
Apparently 8% of the population had the New Years resolution of pursuing a new hobby. If this was your new years resolution then you're in luck! Every Monday here at your favourite local pub we play a friendly game of poker, completely free to play, and you even get a FREE PINT when you sign up! 7PM start, see you soon 🍻
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Tired of trekking all the way to the pub a good half hour before last call only for them to turn you away because "it's quiet in January" so they've shut early? Not here at The Sportsman. These are our opening and closing times, and you can be as sure of getting a pint on Saturday at 3PM as you can Tuesday at 10:59PM. None of that shutting early nonsense here 🍻
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Or just not updating hours on their website or social media. Trying to find out if/when some pubs were open over Christmas was harder than getting into MI5's systems! Opening hours aren't a secret, surely?
Was this triggered because two of the pubs nearby closed well before 1000 on Friday night??!!??
Yes! Proper pub opening hours 🙂 It’s my favourite rant at the moment. Pubs closing early because ‘it’s quiet’ Hats off to you. Wishing you well deserved success 👍
Dry January Mythbusters time 🍻
"This beer isn't alcohol free, it's 0.5%. I'll take an orange juice instead"
We hear this quite a lot at the bar and every time we inform people about it, people seem quite surprised so we thought it'd be worth putting this little education piece on our socials!
You see, this quote is incorrect for 2 reasons. The first is that 0.5% abv is considered by law to be alcohol free due to the fact that your body metabolises that amount of alcohol faster than you can drink it and feel it's effects. And secondly, orange juice is also around 0.5% abv, sometimes even exceeding this level through natural fermentation.
So if you're doing Dry January, now you know, you're safe to drink 0.5% abv beer 🍻 However, maybe stay away from burger buns, they're around 1.2% abv! 😅
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I was drinking non-alcoholic beer before it was cool!
Just drink some IPA and get over it.
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