methods of obtaining inventory levels of liquor it is anticipated that this conventional method of visualizing the content 14 a level to estimate remaining volume of liquor 14 a in the container 14 can also be utilized as an adjunct step within the scope of the present inventive process in the example of fig3 a bar owner would estimate that there are 0 4 tenths of liquor 14 a remaining in the bottle 14 as mentioned above fig4 is a schematic flow chart depicting examples of the steps of the inventive process fig5 depicts an example of a computer screen depicting on hand inventory data for beer obtained from scanning the inventory using the inventive process an on hand inventory of alcohol such as vodkas and the like are not shown but by example would be similar in nature fig6 a and 6 b are screen shorts depicting examples of reports generated from the computer software the columns or data shown are only examples of the tyupe of information that could be generated in the reports any kind of alcoholic beverage whether beer wine champagne liqueurs traditional alcohol beverages such as vodka and whiskey and the like will be generically referred to herein and in the claims as u201c alcohol u201d or u201c alcohol content u201d or u201c alcohol product u201d further it makes no difference whether the alcohol container is a bottle in the traditional sense a boxed container such as boxed wine products or a keg of beer it is anticipated that any commercial.