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!
A sneak peak at what's to come over the next few weeks 👀 What are you looking forward to most?
#beer #craftbeer #caskbeer #realale #huddersfield #huddersfielduni #traditional #beergarden #goodbeerguide #camra #belgianbeer #trappistbeer #dogfriendly #huddersfieldinternationalcrispfest ... See MoreSee Less
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Simcoe and Jaipur
⚠ Sexy new beer on the bar alert ⚠
Mount St. Bernard Abbey Trappist Brewery had a phenomenal 2024 creating one of the beers of the year in collaboration with La Trappe and Zundert. And since then we've had a queue of customers asking us for more from this fantastic brewery, this time we've opted for their blond 😍
This English Trappist Blond is light and bittersweet in a classic English style, with lemon zest on the nose, followed by hints of orange, vanilla, and sherbet. It's made with the same ingredients as the original Tynt Meadow, however, it offers a lighter, more zesty twist on the original.
Available now at your favourite local pub! See you soon 🍻
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Doug Steve Maggie
The sad demise of Magic Rock has started us thinking, which beer of recent years do you miss the most?
I'll start....Summer Wine Diablo was a stunning beer from a cracking local brewery and I'd love to have just one more pint!
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Summer Wine did an imperial stout called Callico Jack that was finished in rum barrels. It was amazing.
Rapture - Don't know why Magic Rock stopped brewing it.
Magic Rock did a rum & raisin dark arts which was delish. I also loved their common grounds coffee porter.
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