[2] In 2014, the brewery won a gold medal for its "Bomb," an Irish-style stout at the World Beer Cup.

[3] In 2017, Moon River Brewing Company took home a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival for their Wild Wacky Wit in the "Belgian-style Witbeir" category.

Many notable people stayed at the City Hotel, including War of 1812 hero Winfield Scott, the Marquis de Lafayette, the first three commodores of the U.S. Navy and naturalist John James Audubon.

In 2009, Moon River was also on Travel Channel's paranormal television series Ghost Adventures, and in 2018 on an episode of BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural.

Moon River Brewery was also featured as a haunted location on paranormal TV series Most Terrifying Places which aired on the Travel Channel in 2019.