diff --git a/admin_test.go b/admin_test.go
index 677e20a0e8..b729d6ee9b 100644
--- a/admin_test.go
+++ b/admin_test.go
@@ -1130,6 +1130,38 @@ func TestClusterAdminCreateAcls(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestClusterAdminCreateAclErrorHandling(t *testing.T) {
+	seedBroker := NewMockBroker(t, 1)
+	defer seedBroker.Close()
+
+	seedBroker.SetHandlerByMap(map[string]MockResponse{
+		"MetadataRequest": NewMockMetadataResponse(t).
+			SetController(seedBroker.BrokerID()).
+			SetBroker(seedBroker.Addr(), seedBroker.BrokerID()),
+		"CreateAclsRequest": NewMockCreateAclsResponseWithError(t),
+	})
+
+	config := NewTestConfig()
+	config.Version = V1_0_0_0
+	admin, err := NewClusterAdmin([]string{seedBroker.Addr()}, config)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	r := Resource{ResourceType: AclResourceTopic, ResourceName: "my_topic"}
+	a := Acl{Host: "localhost", Operation: AclOperationAlter, PermissionType: AclPermissionAny}
+
+	err = admin.CreateACL(r, a)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal(errors.New("error should have been thrown"))
+	}
+
+	err = admin.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestClusterAdminListAcls(t *testing.T) {
 	seedBroker := NewMockBroker(t, 1)
 	defer seedBroker.Close()
diff --git a/broker.go b/broker.go
index 2d75a8cd3d..e481ad711c 100644
--- a/broker.go
+++ b/broker.go
@@ -666,6 +666,17 @@ func (b *Broker) CreateAcls(request *CreateAclsRequest) (*CreateAclsResponse, er
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	errs := make([]error, 0)
+	for _, res := range response.AclCreationResponses {
+		if !errors.Is(res.Err, ErrNoError) {
+			errs = append(errs, res.Err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(errs) > 0 {
+		return response, Wrap(ErrCreateACLs, errs...)
+	}
+
 	return response, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/errors.go b/errors.go
index 507002bfa6..bb64090427 100644
--- a/errors.go
+++ b/errors.go
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ var ErrReassignPartitions = errors.New("failed to reassign partitions for topic"
 // ErrDeleteRecords is the type of error returned when fail to delete the required records
 var ErrDeleteRecords = errors.New("kafka server: failed to delete records")
 
+// ErrCreateACLs is the type of error returned when ACL creation failed
+var ErrCreateACLs = errors.New("kafka server: failed to create one or more ACL rules")
+
 // MultiErrorFormat specifies the formatter applied to format multierrors. The
 // default implementation is a consensed version of the hashicorp/go-multierror
 // default one
diff --git a/message.go b/message.go
index fd0d1d90b7..c6f35a3f5e 100644
--- a/message.go
+++ b/message.go
@@ -42,6 +42,28 @@ func (cc CompressionCodec) String() string {
 	}[int(cc)]
 }
 
+// UnmarshalText returns a CompressionCodec from its string representation.
+func (cc *CompressionCodec) UnmarshalText(text []byte) error {
+	codecs := map[string]CompressionCodec{
+		"none":   CompressionNone,
+		"gzip":   CompressionGZIP,
+		"snappy": CompressionSnappy,
+		"lz4":    CompressionLZ4,
+		"zstd":   CompressionZSTD,
+	}
+	codec, ok := codecs[string(text)]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("cannot parse %q as a compression codec", string(text))
+	}
+	*cc = codec
+	return nil
+}
+
+// MarshalText transforms a CompressionCodec into its string representation.
+func (cc CompressionCodec) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) {
+	return []byte(cc.String()), nil
+}
+
 // Message is a kafka message type
 type Message struct {
 	Codec            CompressionCodec // codec used to compress the message contents
diff --git a/message_test.go b/message_test.go
index a6c7cff2a5..d7bd430d38 100644
--- a/message_test.go
+++ b/message_test.go
@@ -244,3 +244,32 @@ func TestMessageDecodingUnknownVersions(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("Decoding an unknown magic byte produced an unknown error ", err)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestCompressionCodecUnmarshal(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		Input         string
+		Expected      CompressionCodec
+		ExpectedError bool
+	}{
+		{"none", CompressionNone, false},
+		{"zstd", CompressionZSTD, false},
+		{"gzip", CompressionGZIP, false},
+		{"unknown", CompressionNone, true},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		var cc CompressionCodec
+		err := cc.UnmarshalText([]byte(c.Input))
+		if err != nil && !c.ExpectedError {
+			t.Errorf("UnmarshalText(%q) error:\n%+v", c.Input, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if err == nil && c.ExpectedError {
+			t.Errorf("UnmarshalText(%q) got %v but expected error", c.Input, cc)
+			continue
+		}
+		if cc != c.Expected {
+			t.Errorf("UnmarshalText(%q) got %v but expected %v", c.Input, cc, c.Expected)
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/mockresponses.go b/mockresponses.go
index da816963a5..d26a448879 100644
--- a/mockresponses.go
+++ b/mockresponses.go
@@ -998,6 +998,24 @@ func (mr *MockCreateAclsResponse) For(reqBody versionedDecoder) encoderWithHeade
 	return res
 }
 
+type MockCreateAclsResponseError struct {
+	t TestReporter
+}
+
+func NewMockCreateAclsResponseWithError(t TestReporter) *MockCreateAclsResponseError {
+	return &MockCreateAclsResponseError{t: t}
+}
+
+func (mr *MockCreateAclsResponseError) For(reqBody versionedDecoder) encoderWithHeader {
+	req := reqBody.(*CreateAclsRequest)
+	res := &CreateAclsResponse{}
+
+	for range req.AclCreations {
+		res.AclCreationResponses = append(res.AclCreationResponses, &AclCreationResponse{Err: ErrInvalidRequest})
+	}
+	return res
+}
+
 type MockListAclsResponse struct {
 	t TestReporter
 }