Traditional British pub interior with brass hand pulls and roaring fireplace
Specialist brokers · Est. 2025

Insurance for the
great British pub.

Free houses, tenanted pubs, gastropubs and craft taprooms. We build cover around the trade you actually do — not the trade an algorithm thinks you do.

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Why Tapwell

Built by people who've worked the bar.

Cellars that flood on Christmas Eve, listed inns clipped by lorries, beer gardens that turn into wedding venues overnight — we've seen the trade from both sides. The trade is yours. The cover is ours.

  • 01Brokers who've pulled pints, not just quotes
  • 02Specialist underwriters at Lloyd's of London
  • 03Loss adjusters on site within 48 hours
  • 04One renewal date, one named broker
100%
Focused on pubs & bars
24 hrs
Typical quote turnaround
48 hrs
Loss adjusters on site
1 broker
Named to your account
Cover, one pint at a time

Built for everything behind, under and around the bar.

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01Cover

Buildings

Bricks, beams and beer cellars.

Full reinstatement cover for the pub building, outbuildings, beer gardens and tenants' improvements — including listed and timber-framed properties that high-street insurers shy away from.

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02Cover

Contents & stock

From the back-bar gantry to the cellar.

Protect contents, electronic business equipment, sound & lighting rigs and wet & dry stock against fire, theft and accidental damage — including deterioration of frozen and chilled goods.

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03Cover

Public & products liability

Up to £10m within a single quotation.

Cover for injury or damage to customers, suppliers and members of the public — including slips, trips and incidents in beer gardens, function rooms and at external events. An Excess of Loss layer takes the limit up to £10m where you need it.

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04Cover

Employers' liability

Required by law. Built in.

£10m of employers' liability cover for everyone on the payroll — full-time, part-time, casual and the kitchen porter you took on last Friday.

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05Cover

Business interruption

Keep the tills ringing after a closure.

Replaces lost gross profit when an insured event forces you to shut — covering wages, rent and the trade you'd otherwise miss. Combined MD/BI sums insured up to £20m per location.

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06Cover

Loss of licence

If the licence goes, the trade goes.

Indemnity for the reduction in property value and lost trade should the premises licence be forfeited, refused or suspended through no fault of the licensee.

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Broker line

A real broker on the line, not a call centre.

Talk to a specialist who knows the licensed trade — cover placed properly, questions answered plainly.

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The trade, in numbers

A sector worth insuring properly.

45,289
Pubs trading in the UK
Source: British Beer & Pub Association, 2023
£34.3bn
Contributed to the UK economy each year
Source: British Beer & Pub Association
936,000
Jobs supported by the pub and brewing sector
Source: British Beer & Pub Association
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Renewal coming up?

We'll have a quote on your bar by tomorrow lunchtime.

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