Poor House Brewing Company is a nano-brewery in San Diego's Normal Heights neighborhood, operating a one-barrel brewing system out of a back-room brewhouse at the corner of 30th Street and Monroe Avenue at 4494 30th St in the 92116 ZIP. Firefighter Chris Finch — who previously founded Firehouse Brewing Company — and Alanna Scheer opened the brewery in September 2012, making it one of the first micro-scale brewing operations on the 30th Street corridor. The 30th Street craft-beer corridor runs north through the same block as Blind Lady Ale House, whose wood-fired pizza kitchen and guest-tap program complement Poor House's hyper-local nano-batch approach to draft-only distribution. Head brewer Derek Linwood develops recipes for the 14-tap draft tower, specializing in Belgian-style ales and aggressively hopped IPAs. The flagship Hop 30 is a double IPA built from a rotating blend of 30 different hop varietals that changes with each batch, ensuring no two kegs taste identical. Brown Baggin' It, an American Brown Ale, anchors the malt-forward side of the tap list, while seasonal one-offs and experimental batches fill the remaining handles with styles ranging from Imperial Stout to farmhouse saison. A wrap-around bar lines the front windows facing 30th Street, and a pool table occupies the rear — a layout that keeps the room feeling more neighborhood local than production taproom. Finch also co-operates Barn Brewery further up 30th Street, giving him two active brewing projects within the same corridor. Neapolitan-style pies and Italian wine at Madison handle the dinner side of the 30th Street equation, drawing the same walkable foot traffic that fills Poor House's barstools on weeknights. Viejas Arena concert and SDSU basketball crowds heading north from Mission Valley reach the 30th Street corridor in under ten minutes, adding post-event volume to a taproom whose one-barrel system produces roughly 31 gallons per batch — a scarcity model that keeps the 14-tap rotation turning over faster than any full-scale production brewery in the neighborhood.