Sentinel for laravel 5 - Cannot Logout - session persists - laravel-5.1

Question

Laravel 5.1
Sentinel 2
Here is my logout() in controller:
public function logout()
{
$user = Sentinel::getUser();
Sentinel::logout($user, true);
return redirect('/shopadmin/login');
}
Here is how I login:
public function login(Request $request)
{
if (Sentinel::guest()):
$email = $request->get('email');
$pass = $request->get('password');
$credentials = [
'email' => $email,
'password' => $pass,
];
// $role = Sentinel::findRoleByName('admin');
$user = Sentinel::findById(1);
$user = Sentinel::findUserById(1);
if($user = Sentinel::authenticateAndRemember($user, $credentials)):
return redirect('/shopadmin');
else:
return view('backend.login');
endif;
else:
return redirect('/shopadmin');
endif;
}
And I also have this in my __contruct
public function __construct()
{
$this->layout = view('layouts.backend');
$user = Sentinel::check();
view()->share('user',$user);
}
No middleware
My problem is after logout runs, user should get redirected to login page, but instead it forwards me to the dashboard and Sentinel::getUser(); still shows active user.
with following:
**#persistableKey: "user_id"
#persistableRelationship: "persistences"**
Is there a different way to log out? I cannon flush entire session because I am keeping some non-user variables.
Technically, logout() should destroy all cookies and sessions related to user? correct? Then why in the Functional-Uniformly-Coded-Kernel my user is still logged in?!
Thanks for help!