diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka-streams.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka-streams.adoc
index 0052531b3..138badbe8 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka-streams.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka-streams.adoc
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ It will use that for inbound deserialization.
 
 ```
 @Bean
-public Serde<Foo() customSerde{
+public Serde<Foo> customSerde() {
  ...
 }