To cask, or not to cask...

[Tippler]

I have two brews fermenting at the moment (I recently bought a 23kg load of LME so I'm trying to use it up as quickly as possible); the first is a TT Landlord clone, the second, started a week later, is an OP imitation.

The Landlord is in the secondary fermenter and still bubbling nicely, but the OP in the bucket (the more recent) is almost at its FG. I had thought the Landlord would finish first and thus free up the secondary fermenter so I could move the OP into it, but it hasn't.

So, my question is basically this: what is the difference between finishing the Landlord in a cask before it is completely finished, and just letting it finish in the secondary?

I know the obvious answer is to buy another secondary, but I don't have a LHBS.

[GrowlingDogBeer]

I only use secondary fermenting vessels if I am planning to bottle, even then I often don't bother.

I always transfer direct from the primary to the keg, I don't always wait for it to reach it's FG either, I just add a bit less priming sugars.

I know some people do use secondary FV's, but personally I have never noticed the difference so I go straight from Primary FV to Keg, usually after 10 to 14 days.

[Bayerd]

I also go straight to cask as well. I used to brew in a micro brewery. We used to go straight to cask there as well. How do you serve your beer? If you use a hand pump and sparkler, you'd be better waiting until the primary ferment has finished, otherwise the beer will fob and the head will die quickly.