A key element of the force field accuracy is determined by the chromophore charges. Using the ground state optimized structure, the ground state wave function computed with a polarizable continuum model of methanol was used to obtain the DDEC6 partial atomic charges with the chargemol program. The CAM-B3LYP/6-31G(d) predicted ground state dipole moment of 5.4 D increases by 1.2 D in the excited state to a value of 6.6 D, with this increase a bit smaller than the 1.5-2.1 D measured in experiments. We find that the DDEC6 ground state dipole moment is slightly smaller than the QM value, at 4.3 D. In contrast, charges computed with the Merz-Kollman model, which we later use to reparametrize the force field as described in the next section, agree with the QM dipole moment. The cresyl violate molecule was solvated in a 32 Å radius sphere of methanol, with the same procedure followed with QUBEKit to generate a ground state force field for the methanol molecule.