Our Story & Team

Sharing a love for making new friends, backgrounds in manufacturing, and hearts for entrepreneurship, Rob set out to design and create the experience of a lifetime. A place for everyone to enjoy a pint, listen to some tunes and engage in a great conversation full of laughter. This is the way they love to hang out and hope you will too! Passionate about creating wonderful products and endless fun, the dream began to slowly take shape. Every detail of the Red Top Brewhouse experience was designed to create and foster relationships, friendship, and to cultivate a love for our community. Please come join in the fun, everyone is welcome!

Rob Hankinson was born in Birmingham, England and after years of traveling for his education and apprenticeship moved to the United States with his wife and one year old. His two degrees and work experience abroad did not receive the warm welcome one would expect, but undeterred Rob went on to build Heatco (officially founded in 1982) which consistently grew to serve not only the entire state of Georgia but several states around the US and many countries around the world! Rob has since retired but his sons continue to grow the company and make him and his wife, Marion, very proud.

Retirement for Rob did not mean sitting at home - he has spent his time giving back to the community in countless ways...founding The B.T.U. Academy for high school students that want to enter the heating, cooling, and refrigeration sectors of commerce with the assistance of Chattahoochee Tech and Bartow County College and Career Center, serving as President of Bartow County Rotary Club, and serving on the board for his local homeless shelter.


Rob's idea of fun these days is driving fast cars, breaking fancy golf clubs, growing expensive tomatoes, and creating the best new restaurant and bar in town.