HOW TO IMPLEMENT EMAIL VERIFICATION ON LARAVEL 5 1

So I struggle with this for a day or two. First I build the authentication system from scratch and created a new method to generate and verify the email token, worked pretty well. But why not using the authentication system which comes out of the box with Laravel 5? If you are using 5.1 you get the login throttling for free as well! So reason enough to rewrite the code and implement the email verification with the build in authentication system.