If you're worried it's taking a long time, ramp the temp up to 30c.
It'll taste like **** but...
You can do it, but with a pack of US-05 costing less than $5, I wouldn't. I seem to remember reading/hearing that dry yeast mutates too much in the first generation, so your results might not be consistent. Having said that, it may mutate into something beautiful after all.
If you're set on reusing the yeast, make some beer bread with it.
I think it's worth reusing even dry yeast - a few generations along the track, docile yeasts turn into monsters in my experience.
Give it a wash and reuse within a short time and you should be fine.
Kev
I have two ipas double batch. Used two different packs of us05. The gravity was 1065 to start and took 14 days to get to 1028 and another 6 to get to 1.020. It is the first time I have done a big beer over 1.055 with it. Maybe there is a poor batch or I simply under pitched. I have recently bought yeast slants to start splitting wyeast packs for culturing.I put a kit Pilsener on 10 days ago but used the us-05 yeast instead of the kit yeast. It has been at a steady 18-20 degree range the whole time, but it is still going! I did this same kit with the yeast supplied in the kit once before and the fermentation was done within 5 days. Nothing is different from the first time except the yeast.
Checked the gravity and still has a few more points to go, after 10 days.
Is this yeast known to be a little slow, or could there be a problem?
Wolfy (I think) has a few good tips on yeast management, and the links to his blog are in his sig. There also loads of videos on YouTube, rinsing/storing yeast. Also read through the articles on AHB. The links are at the top of the page.
I haven't read all the posts here but I have had US-05 struggle when used under 17 degrees.
I've seen a link on this site somewhere, which I can't seem to find at the moment, to a calculator which says how much washed/reused yeast to pitch based on how old it is, and the OG of the wort.
Fermentation is now well and truly done (been at around 1.008 for a few days now), but beer is VERY cloudy. I'm probably going to leave it for another week, already been two.
There's always the option of racking on to the gelatine if you like - many used to suggest this as being better than adding it to primary anyway. That way you get the benefits of using gelatine (such as they are) and get to use the yeast from primary as you wish (not that gelatine would necessarily prevent this anyway).