diff --git a/docs/src/main/java/io/quarkus/docs/generation/AssembleDownstreamDocumentation.java b/docs/src/main/java/io/quarkus/docs/generation/AssembleDownstreamDocumentation.java
index 2a88d1d2b106c..a12f247b1ecb7 100755
--- a/docs/src/main/java/io/quarkus/docs/generation/AssembleDownstreamDocumentation.java
+++ b/docs/src/main/java/io/quarkus/docs/generation/AssembleDownstreamDocumentation.java
@@ -355,6 +355,15 @@ private static void copyAsciidoc(Path sourceFile, Path targetFile, Set<String> d
             lineNumber++;
 
             if (!documentTitleFound && line.startsWith("= ")) {
+                // anything in the buffer needs to be appended
+                // we don't need to rewrite it as before the title we can only have the preamble
+                // and we don't want to change anything in the preamble
+                // if at some point we want to adjust the preamble, make sure to do it in a separate method and not reuse rewriteContent
+                if (currentBuffer.length() > 0) {
+                    rewrittenGuide.append(currentBuffer);
+                    currentBuffer.setLength(0);
+                }
+
                 // this is the document title
                 rewrittenGuide.append(line.replace(PROJECT_NAME_ATTRIBUTE, RED_HAT_BUILD_OF_QUARKUS) + "\n");
                 documentTitleFound = true;