About StockTap

StockTap is built and run by Shaun McManus, a licensee in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and a Personal Licence holder.

I run a pub with seventeen staff on a tied agreement. Everything on this site comes out of running it: five independent liquor audits between December 2025 and July 2026, the reports they produced, and what I got wrong reading them.

Every figure published on this site is attributed. Where the number is mine, it comes from my own stocktake reports and I say so. Where it is someone else’s, it is a published rate card, a filed set of accounts or a named report, and I name it. If you think a figure here is wrong, email me and I will correct it or take it down.

In the press

The Morning Advertiser, the UK pub trade’s paper, has covered this work twice:

• Licensee launches free gross profit calculator for pubs, 30 September 2026, on the free GP calculator.
• £1.31 of every North East pint goes to Treasury, 5 October 2026, on the VAT and duty in a pint ahead of the Budget. The workings are in the average pint price guide.

I am a licensee, not a solicitor and not an accountant. Nothing on this site is legal or financial advice.

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