diff --git a/schemaregistry/serde/avro.ts b/schemaregistry/serde/avro.ts
index 984d8bfb..54bc262f 100644
--- a/schemaregistry/serde/avro.ts
+++ b/schemaregistry/serde/avro.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   FieldTransform,
   FieldType, Migration, RefResolver,
   RuleConditionError,
-  RuleContext, SchemaId, SerdeType,
+  RuleContext, SchemaId, SerdeType, SerializationError,
   Serializer, SerializerConfig
 } from "./serde";
 import {
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ export class AvroSerializer extends Serializer implements AvroSerde {
     const subject = this.subjectName(topic, info)
     msg = await this.executeRules(
       subject, topic, RuleMode.WRITE, null, info, msg, getInlineTags(info, deps))
+    avroType.isValid(msg, {errorHook: (path, any, type) => {
+      throw new SerializationError(
+        `Invalid message at ${path.join('.')}, expected ${type}, got ${stringify(any)}`)
+    }})
     let msgBytes = avroType.toBuffer(msg)
     msgBytes = await this.executeRulesWithPhase(
       subject, topic, RulePhase.ENCODING, RuleMode.WRITE, null, info, msgBytes, null)
diff --git a/schemaregistry/test/serde/avro.spec.ts b/schemaregistry/test/serde/avro.spec.ts
index 7580939e..7d450af3 100644
--- a/schemaregistry/test/serde/avro.spec.ts
+++ b/schemaregistry/test/serde/avro.spec.ts
@@ -75,6 +75,18 @@ const demoSchema = `
   ]
 }
 `
+const nameSchema = `
+{
+  "type": "record",
+  "namespace": "examples",
+  "name": "NameSchema",
+  "fields": [
+    { "name": "fullName", "type": "string" },
+    { "name": "lastName", "type": "string" }
+  ],
+  "version": "1"
+}
+`
 const demoSchemaSingleTag = `
 {
   "name": "DemoSchema",
@@ -369,6 +381,24 @@ describe('AvroSerializer', () => {
     expect(obj2.boolField).toEqual(obj.boolField);
     expect(obj2.bytesField).toEqual(obj.bytesField);
   })
+  it('bad serialization', async () => {
+    let conf: ClientConfig = {
+      baseURLs: [baseURL],
+      cacheCapacity: 1000
+    }
+    let client = SchemaRegistryClient.newClient(conf)
+    let ser = new AvroSerializer(client, SerdeType.VALUE, {useLatestVersion: true})
+    let info = {
+      schemaType: 'AVRO',
+      schema: nameSchema
+    }
+    await client.register(subject, info, false)
+    try {
+      await ser.serialize(topic, { lastName: "lastName" })
+    } catch (err) {
+      expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(SerializationError)
+    }
+  })
   it('guid in header', async () => {
     let conf: ClientConfig = {
       baseURLs: [baseURL],