Xylo... what you said is very strange.
by "55 g of BZP freebase" i assume that you mean 55 g of roughly technical grade benzylpiperazine. somewhere in the synthesis it may have been neutralized with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate, but those won't be present in the product. if you let it evaporate, the vapor will be BZP and you will be left with nothing (except maybe some residue).
BZP freebase is in fact a "yellow or colorless oil" at room temperature, so.. letting it evaporate would be useless.
i like the "anyone can do this" procedure for making the HCl salt. i'm not sure what they mean by "99% anhydrous".. does that mean "anhydrous, but since it's never going to be 100% anyway i'll just say 99%", or does it mean "99% anhydrous, 1% water", or "99% anhydrous solvent, 1% something else other than water"? at any rate, the average "anyone" would have a lot of trouble getting anhydrous solvents, which are lab-grade chemicals that require special storage.
also, this is a recrystallization and would be better performed with:
a) the use of HCl gas rather than ridiculously impure 21° Baumé muriatic acid, which is obviously far more difficult,
b) the dissolving step done using minimal, slightly warm solvent, and slowly cooling the mixture once crystals begin to form, eventually in an ice bath.
BZP must be *damned* polar to not be soluble in acetone or methanol.. but i can't find anything to contest that.