Regulator

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THEREGULATORS - The Regulator Movement in mid-18th-century North Carolina was a rebellion initiated by residents of the colony's backcountry who believed that royal government officials were charging them excessive fees, falsifying records, and engaging in other mistreatments. The movement's name refers to the desire of these citizens to regulate their own affairs. Led by men such as Rednap Howell, James Hunter, and Herman Husband – considered the movement's chief spokesman – the Regulators organized a resistance to these abuses, first through protest and ultimately through violence. On May 16, 1771, the Battle of Alamance ended the so-called War of the Regulation. Some historians consider it the opening salvo of the American Revolution, although the rebellion was against local government, and not against the king or crown. Named for nearby Great Alamance Creek, the battle took place in the central Piedmont about eight miles south of present-day Burlington, North Carolina. THEDOPPELBOCKSTYLE - In the early 17th century, the monks who first brewed their strong bock beer for Lenten season named it “Salvator.” Doppelbocks emerged in the late-18-century as an even more powerful lager variant of the monks’ old “liquid bread.” Thus, it has become traditional for breweries to give doppelbocks a name that ends in “-ator.”