diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc b/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
index 0f67be74b..10bf4102a 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ essentially allowing you to build your own re-try logic within the handler itsel
 ===== Retry Template
 
 The `RetryTemplate` is part of the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-retry[Spring Retry] library.
-While it is out of scope of this dcument to cover all of the capabilities of the `RetryTemplate`, we will mention the following consumer properties that are specifically related to
+While it is out of scope of this document to cover all of the capabilities of the `RetryTemplate`, we will mention the following consumer properties that are specifically related to
 the `RetryTemplate`:
 
 maxAttempts::
@@ -865,8 +865,18 @@ The backoff multiplier.
 Default 2.0.
 
 While the preceding settings are sufficient for majority of the customization requirements, they may not satisfy certain complex requirements at, which
-point you may want to provide your own instance of the `RetryTemplate`. To do so configure it as a `@Bean` in your application configuration. The application provided
-instance overrides the one provided by the framework.
+point you may want to provide your own instance of the `RetryTemplate`. To do so configure it as a bean in your application configuration. The application provided
+instance will override the one provided by the framework. Also, to avoid conflicts you must qualify the instance of the `RetryTemplate` you want to be used by the binder
+as `@StreamRetryTemplate`. For example,
+
+[source,java]
+----
+@StreamRetryTemplate
+public RetryTemplate myRetryTemplate() {
+    return new RetryTemplate();
+}
+----
+As you can see from the above example you don't need to annotate it with `@Bean` since `@StreamRetryTemplate` is a qualified `@Bean`.
 
 [[spring-cloud-stream-overview-reactive-programming-support]]
 === Reactive Programming Support
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/annotation/StreamRetryTemplate.java b/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/annotation/StreamRetryTemplate.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c8f042ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/annotation/StreamRetryTemplate.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.cloud.stream.annotation;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate;
+
+/**
+ * Marker to tag an instance of {@link RetryTemplate} to be used by the binder.
+ * This annotation is also a @Bean to simplify configuration (see below)
+ *
+ * <pre class="code">
+ * &#064;StreamRetryTemplate
+ * public RetryTemplate myRetryTemplate() {
+ *    return new RetryTemplate();
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @author Oleg Zhurakousky
+ * @since 2.1
+ */
+
+@Target({ElementType.FIELD,ElementType.METHOD})
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Documented
+@Bean
+@Qualifier
+public @interface StreamRetryTemplate {
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/binder/AbstractBinder.java b/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/binder/AbstractBinder.java
index c3991fc51..e4fd06db8 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/binder/AbstractBinder.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/stream/binder/AbstractBinder.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.cloud.stream.annotation.StreamRetryTemplate;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
 import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;
@@ -64,7 +65,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractBinder<T, C extends ConsumerProperties, P extends
 	private volatile EvaluationContext evaluationContext;
 
 	@Autowired(required=false) // this would need to be refactored into constructor in the future
-	private RetryTemplate retryTemplate;
+	@StreamRetryTemplate
+	private RetryTemplate consumerBindingRetryTemplate;
 
 	/**
 	 * For binder implementations that support a prefix, apply the prefix to the name.
@@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractBinder<T, C extends ConsumerProperties, P extends
 	 * @return The retry template
 	 */
 	protected RetryTemplate buildRetryTemplate(ConsumerProperties properties) {
-		RetryTemplate rt = this.retryTemplate;
+		RetryTemplate rt = this.consumerBindingRetryTemplate;
 		if (rt == null) {
 			rt = new RetryTemplate();
 			SimpleRetryPolicy retryPolicy = new SimpleRetryPolicy();