Liquor Colour
The Colour of Tea
The colour of brewed tea has its own name in Japanese: suishoku. From pale gold to deep brown, here are 62 teas arranged by the family of their colour and how deep it runs. One drink, and this much range.
About these colours
These are approximations built from the words used in the encyclopedia — 'light orange', 'clear ruby' and so on — not measurements of the actual liquor. The same tea changes colour with the amount of leaf, the steeping time and the hardness of the water.
pale → deepPaleLightMediumDeepishDeepVery deep
Golden
3Amber
3Orange
26- KeemunLight Orange
- MuscatLight Orange
- GalleBright Orange
- IlamBright Orange
- Japanese Black TeaGentle Orange
- JasmineBright Orange
- JavaBright Orange
- LycheeBright Orange
- MintBright Orange
- PeachBright Orange
- RoseBright Orange
- AppleOrange
- DarjeelingOrange
- DimbulaOrange
- KanyamOrange
- Nuwara EliyaOrange
- Lapsang SouchongDeep Orange
- NilgiriDeep Orange
- AmbreDark Orange
- Earl GreyDark Orange
- FramboiseDeep Orange
- Georgian TeaDeep Orange
- GingerDeep Orange
- MangoDeep Orange
- Quartier LatinDeep Orange
- VietnamDark Orange
Red-orange
2Red
8Crimson
9Red-brown
3Brown
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62 teas, sorted into 20 colours.