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>>15463975
you're using pre-ground coffee for pour-over, so you won't get anything great, but with what you have right now there are a few things you could try to improve the quality:

1. brew ratio
adjusting your brew ratio could help with the buzz. 2.5 tablespoons is roughly 20 to 21 grams, which might be a lot for a cup, but it's hard to tell with imprecise measurements. if you got a kitchen scale that would be helpful. fix either the water capacity or the amount of coffee and adjust the other variable to your liking. common sense says if you're getting jitters, you'll want to use less coffee, but that won't help with the thin-ness part, so the other thing is:

2. pour technique
as far as pour technique goes, i can't tell if you got a lot of pour control on the kettle you bought. the standard for pour-over is a gooseneck so it might be tougher to control the pour on your kettle, but i can't tell from the photos alone. regardless, you'll want to make sure you go slow enough and pour in concentric circles to saturate all the grounds and avoid pouring directly into the paper. there are a lot of different ways to approach pouring technique, you could youtube search "v60 pour method" and get a fuckton of different ideas but basically the idea is to pour in a way where the grounds are being evenly extracted and things don't filter too quickly because that's where you get the "thin-ness" you mentioned earlier

for more help on pour-over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4ynXzkSQo&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwGkUUF2aA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePcGcp6iy1A