Buy our Seasonal Highlights
Our favorites and recommendations. See what's new!
Electric Kettle
The official Great Lakes Tea electric kettle. Gooseneck pour, precise temper...
About Our Tea
All of our tea leaves are hand-selected for maximum deliciousness and direct chain-of-origin. We prefer to drink our tea in the Gong Fu style, but great tea can be brewed in any fashion.
Find Your Tea
Our Ethos
At Great Lakes Tea, we source the best directly from China. If we don't like it, we don't sell it. It's that simple. We get the good stuff because we want to drink it ourselves. Fine selection, limited supply, always fresh.
Tea-rriffic Selection
A tea for every personality! Find the tea that matches you from our 50 varietals
Flat Shipping
Flat, $5 shipping for all orders under 1lb, anywhere in the contiguous states.
Bulk Savings
Up to 10% off your entire purchase for orders of 3 or more teas!
Signature Specialties
Unique blends, crowd pleasers, and personal favorites.
House Puer is exceptionally good for digestion, and comes with a variety of beneficial...
Crafted meticulously by blending the finest of oolong leaves with the invigorating essence of ginseng root, this tea offers a harmonious symphony of flavors that dance on your taste buds. Legend has it that this exquisite blend was reserved for the Emperor himself and his chosen few for millennia, traditionally forbidden to all but royalty– now made available to you.
Whether enjoyed alone or shared with loved ones, this tea elevates the ordinary to...
Who We Are
A brief treatise on the minds behind Great Lakes Tea.
Who?
We're Carter & Lee! Part-time conversationalists, full time tea enthusiasts. Our goal when we started out was simple: get high grade teas in the hands of people who would never have it otherwise, and have great conversations while doing it. Great Lakes Tea is born from an existing legacy of family owned tea shops that takes great pride in the quality of each and every tea we carry, no exceptions.
Why?
When we're not gleefully sipping the latest from Canton, we're musing about art, anime, comics, movies, and games. In time, we hope to bring some of that to you! Tea is best when enjoyed with good company, and our overarching goal is to create a community that merges the worlds of pop culture and tea. Sip & slurp with likeminded folks!
What?
We've spent decades cultivating an image of class and sophistication so that we could swindle the powers that be just long enough to bring our tea leaves to aficionados like you. One Anime Supervillain and a heavily chagrined Tea Master bring you: Great Lakes Tea. A craft experiment in converting great tea into great conversations through the power of dated pop culture references and artisanal dad jokes. Although we are primarily an online storefront, we've recently begun construction on a tea lounge in downtown Chicago. Coming soon!
