Possible Clues:

• Made 7-Down
• Sounds as if the hen had it and made beer with it
• Made by boiling and fermentation, say beer
• We're told the kids made the tea
• Have family, including wife, ready to get drunk?
• Made (beer)
• Wife amid strain describing tea?
• Litter may be picked up, as tea is
• Concocted
• Boiled e.g. little chickens, it's said