Imported from my RateBeer account as De Bie Riebedebie (by Brouwerij de Bie):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

13/VII/13 - 33cl bottle @ De Leute (Oere) - bottled: III/2012 (2013-627) Thanks to Wim for buying the beer!

Clear orange beer, irregular of-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. aroma: bit metallic, fruity, sugary, some citrus, spicy, cloves. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, hoppy bitterness, sugary, metallic. Aftertaste: very metallic, spicy, cloves, bitter touch, dry ending.

bouteille 33cl, embouteillée 02/20/2012. Dorée, col blanc fin. Arôme présente de suite un bouquet alcoolisé suivi de malt, et un léger fleuri et herbacé houblonné un peu trop présent. Palais garde des notes épicées rappelant le grains de moutarde avec un suivi tirant vers un mielleux doux mais léger. Effervescence agréable gardant une certaine douceur de fin de bouche pour une bière très belge dans son approche. Houblon contribue moyennement à l’amertume et un profil malté restant en retrait, de la à dire que c’est une triple, je reste dubitatif sur ce point. au final, je trouve cet alcool dérangeant et on se retrouve sur un mélange de douceur et amertume trop typique de nombreuses bières belges.

Hazy golden with a disappearing white head. Yeasty aroma with a mineral note. Sweet yeasty flavour with a fruity hint and hot alcohol

Clearish golden coloured body with an orange glow and a thin, fast-dying off-white head. Aroma of pears, alcohol, honey, yeast, grass, hay, curacao and a bit of gueuze. Medium-bodied; Nice sweetness up front of honey and figs with a little malt backbone and a grassy, hay, barnyardie flavour on the outskirts of a biere de garde. Aftertaste shows some pears, apples, fruits and a little sour kick, but mostly just sweet and relatively easy drinking. Overall, a surprisingly (from the horrible ratings) nice beer with a bunch of good flavours, some nice complexity and a good overall profile. Please note that this is not an abbey tripel by any means - more of a simple Belgian Ale than anything else. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Beer Mania in Bruxelles, Belgium on 28-December-2007 sampled at home in Washington on 05-October-2012...I kept onto it for ~5 years, and it turned out to be very nice. Bottle from Lot B in Sept 2006 (shown similar to the picture on the right).

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma. Sweetish malty yeasty honey flavor. Has a sweetish malty yeasty finish.

Bottle from Tanakaya. Malty, bready nose, light fruit, pears. Medium gold with a low head. Sweet, malty flavor, light spices, bread, cake. Ok bitterness on the finish, but low hop flavors. Very one-dimensional. Heavy, creamy, rather thick. Ok, but not my kind of tripel. Too cloying.                                                         

Bottle @ home, shared with Dutchdrebus. Hazy yellow / orange color, small white head. Smell sweet, lightly metallic. Taste sweet, some alcohol and something weird. Low to medium carbonation, low body.