diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/requestreply/AggregatingReplyingKafkaTemplate.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/requestreply/AggregatingReplyingKafkaTemplate.java
index 585fe4f687..fc6a1ea9f5 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/requestreply/AggregatingReplyingKafkaTemplate.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/requestreply/AggregatingReplyingKafkaTemplate.java
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.OffsetAndMetadata;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.header.Header;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeader;
 
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.ProducerFactory;
 import org.springframework.kafka.listener.BatchConsumerAwareMessageListener;
@@ -148,11 +147,7 @@ public void onMessage(List<ConsumerRecord<K, Collection<ConsumerRecord<K, R>>>>
 						if (this.releaseStrategy.test(list, false)) {
 							ConsumerRecord<K, Collection<ConsumerRecord<K, R>>> done =
 									new ConsumerRecord<>(AGGREGATED_RESULTS_TOPIC, 0, 0L, null, list);
-							done.headers()
-									.add(new RecordHeader(correlationHeaderName,
-											isBinaryCorrelation()
-													? ((CorrelationKey) correlationId).getCorrelationId()
-													: ((String) correlationId).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
+							done.headers().add(correlation);
 							this.pending.remove(correlationId);
 							checkOffsetsAndCommitIfNecessary(list, consumer);
 							completed.add(done);